{"id":176,"date":"2008-11-20T06:53:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T10:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2008\/11\/20\/al-qaeda-greets-obama-victory-with-an-insult\/"},"modified":"2008-11-20T06:53:54","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T10:53:54","slug":"al-qaeda-greets-obama-victory-with-an-insult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"al qaeda greets obama victory with an insult"},"content":{"rendered":"

From http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/11\/19\/mideast\/qaeda.php<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“In Al Qaeda’s first response to the American election, Osama bin Laden’s top deputy condemned President-elect Barack Obama as a “house Negro” who will continue a campaign against Islam begun by President George W.\u00a0Bush.”
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\n“American officials dismissed the new video as spin control and a desperate tactic by a terror group that suffered a defeat in the global war of ideas when the United States elected a black president with a Muslim name.”
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\n“And in a blunt personal attack on the new president, Zawahiri painted Obama as a hypocrite and traitor to his race, unfavorably comparing him to ‘honorable black Americans’ like Malcolm X, the 1960s black Muslim leader. The Qaeda video drew extensively on archival footage of Malcolm X, and much of the message juxtaposes a still picture of Obama wearing a yarmulke during a visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem with a photo of Malcolm X kneeling in prayer at a mosque.”<\/p>\n

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You all know I don’t especially like our new President-elect, but I’d point to this as a case-in-point that we’re still hated by extremists the world over. Personally, I think it’s a Good Thing\u2122 that we are – if we weren’t, we’d be either a bunch of wishy-washy assholes who don’t believe in anything, or we’d be just as fanatical; neither of those appeal to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/11\/19\/mideast\/qaeda.php: “In Al Qaeda’s first response to the American election, Osama bin Laden’s top deputy condemned President-elect Barack Obama as a “house Negro” who will continue a campaign against Islam begun by President George W.\u00a0Bush.” … “American officials dismissed the new video as spin control and a desperate tactic by a terror group that …
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